From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 22 23:55:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postfix2-1.free.fr (postfix2-1.free.fr [213.228.0.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A411537B402 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 23:55:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluerondo.a.la.turk (nas-cbv-5-144-82.dial.proxad.net [62.147.144.82]) by postfix2-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9749729E for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:55:24 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 289 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Jan 2002 07:54:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:54:11 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: Baldur Gislason , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat Message-ID: <20020123085411.A240@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , Baldur Gislason , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <20020122114500.D64626@lpt.ens.fr> <3C4DE7E9.561BE221@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C4DE7E9.561BE221@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:30:01PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-RC i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert said on Jan 22, 2002 at 14:30:01: > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > On that subject, why does everyone compare slackware to the BSDs? > > Rigor. > The BSDs have more academic rigor (though not as much as an > academic project, by half). Slackware also has academic > rigor, where correctness is the most important thing. Maybe definitions differ -- but it seems among linux users, anyway, the distribution which is generally highly regarded for rigour is Debian. Also, a package management system which does not do dependency tracking and upgrades of dependencies (which, as far as I can make out, Slackware's does not) is not "rigorous" or "correct" -- you can seriously hose your system. The BSD system is closer to correctness but still has problems; the portupgrade scripts make things much better but can't handle all situations either. Debian's system really seems to be the best of the lot in this respect. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message